Ingrid Nieuwenhuis
Spreker En Trainer at The Associator
Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolIngrid Nieuwenhuis is a neuroscientist-turned-speaker, trainer and founder with 16 years of experience translating brain science into practical classroom and product impact. She creates and delivers lively, evidence-based workshops and the Science Boxes curriculum that apply memory, attention and motivation principles to secondary education, already scaling across Dutch schools. Her background includes leading neuroscience R&D and EEG/eye-tracking studies at companies like Alpha.One and Facebook, and contributing as a core developer to the widely used FieldTrip MEG/EEG MATLAB toolbox. Ingrid combines deep academic rigour (PhD in Neuroscience) with hands-on product science—she’s built neuroscience-derived metrics for AI ad-prediction platforms—and trains teachers and parents to use neuroscience-informed tools the very next day. Based in Almere, she’s known for turning complex neuroimaging methods into actionable classroom strategies and for bridging research, product and pedagogy.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neurowetenschap (Neurosciences), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Neurowetenschap (Neurosciences) at Radboud UniversityMaster Neurobiology, Master Neurobiology at University of Amsterdam
Dutch, English, German, French
Github Skills (9)
debug10
megaparsec10
matlab10
neuroimaging9
analyse9
debugging9
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
fieldtrip/fieldtrip
Oct 2009 - May 2013
The MATLAB toolbox for MEG, EEG and iEEG analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:80 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ingrid primarily contributed to bug fixes within the MATLAB toolbox for MEG, EEG, and iEEG analysis. They corrected errors in the databrowser, addressing issues related to the butterfly mode, trial visualization, and event handling. Further contributions involved adding and modifying options within the plotting functions to enhance functionality and improve the user experience. Moreover, they added the implementation for a new functionality.
brainneurosciencetime-frequencyfieldtripieeg
IngridNieuwenhuis/fieldtrip
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
matlab-toolboxmatlabtoolboxeeg-analysiseeg
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